Majority of blogger platforms today allows the users to publish syndication feeds (RSS or Atom). The feeds are especially helpful for ardent blog readers to keep in touch with the latest updates of a blog - be it anything like photo blogs, radio blogs or video blogs, the user can get the latest content via a desktop based feed reader or a web based feed reader like Google Reader.

There is an estimated 35 million blogs worldwide and the number is fast increasing. The main reason people becoming bloggers is that they need little knowledge about HTML or any software. They can publish to the photo blogs or radio blogs (audio blogs) via a web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox. The blog platform will do all the necessary background actions.

The taking over of Blogger (blogger.com) by Google is the biggest turning point in blogging. Blogger.com allows bloggers to not only publish their posts, but also allows them to publish their own ads, to experiment with the template. Ads by the supported platform is absent in blogger blogs. Typepad is another blog platform that individuals and companies use.

Companies see blogs as excellent method of attracting and retaining visitors. Google blogs are the biggest example of corporate blogging. Each and every updating about the company is published in department blogs and the subscribers of news feeds can see the updates as and when it occurs.

There are many attempts to cash in on the enthusiasm of bloggers. Almost all companies now promote affiliate marketing through blogs and blog advertising is fast picking up. Bloggers make use of the pinging service by technorati, blogot etc. Pinging service tell search engines that new content is available at the blog. Pinging and newfeeds keeps the search engines busy visiting the blog.

Bloggers that publish text blogs, photo blogs, radio blogs or audio blogs and video blogs enjoy the democratic nature of the blogs. There are no editorial content and interaction with the readers is easy because of the comment feature. Blogging has emerged here to stay. And it will be the medium through which companies sell their products and services in the future.

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Now here are some strange concepts promoted about blogs.

‘…blog on about the sex life of the Tasmanian fruit fly and still reap big rewards’
(I would certainly like to know if anyone can tell me)

“Turn Your Personal Opinions, Rants And Raves Into New Subscribers…”

There are hundreds of articles on blogging, promoting a concept of raving and ranting on web space by anyone who wants to have the voyeuristic pleasure of making their maniacal moaning public. What is the purpose of promoting such a concept is something beyond the comprehension of any intelligent person.

Blogs undoubtedly remain the best innovation since the beginnings of internet, putting a web page within the reach of an average person, who has no technical knowledge of web page creation. Anyone can easily create a web page on a pre-designed template by just typing out information which they want to share.

Every individual has something valuable to say in his or her sphere of activity or expertise. Every individual has interesting opinions about life, society, politics, economics, business or anything else which you feel strongly about. Blogs or web log is a journal where you can record your views and opinions and make it available to other people who are interested in the subject.

The key is sharing ‘Valuable’ comments and insights on a subject matter if you want to run a public web log. Somehow the concept got promoted that you can put any kind of incomprehensible ravings on a blog and the result, millions of blogs out there which has nothing much to say except meaningless chatter.

Just imagine your personal diary filled with page after page of meaningless scribbling. Someone reading them in the distant future will throw it out with disgust. On the other hand if you have made insightful comments on issues and daily happenings, it will be read with interest and referred regularly for your views. That’s how a blog works.

Make it personal by all means as in a diary. Let there be emotion but with information. If you want to simply rave and rant you are better off getting admitted and doing that in a nut house than on a web page. No one is going to read them in any case. You will at least save the clutter on the web sphere.

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3. Put streaming video clips on your blog. One of the emerging service providers of video clips is the http://instantvideogenerator.com.

4. Syndicate your contents. You can use the more popular RSS format. You can do this by checking the web for companies that offer this service.

5. Provide space for your readers to give you feedback by checking your blog setting and modify this to allow posts. Of course, leave a reminder, that they are free to post contrary comments as long as they do it in a polite and considerate manner.

6. What do the majority of your readers think of your blog? Do you want to know and tally this up? And show off the results on your blog? Run polls. Some examples of free poll service are the web poll central and free polls.

7. If you use you use WordPress, a server-installed, open-source (free) state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability, try their email notification plug-in. This plug-in notifies your subscribers of your blog posts through email.

8. Trackback is a great blog feature, for it allows for a continuing conversation between you and bloggers of similarly themed blogs. When you comment on another blog posting in your blog instead of in that blog’s comments page, the trackback link connects these posts so the thread isn’t lost.

All of these software or plug-ins will help you illustrate your point in a fun and interesting way. But you should remember content is king on the net. These devices are not substitutes for great content, which is what really what drives traffic to your blog.

Copyright 2005 Mal Keenan

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It begins with the Emperor’s daughter, Jahara, telling her story of love and war, life and death. It tells of her family and how one evil, heartless brother can change their world. And most enthralling of all, it tells the story of the Taj Mahal (one of the eight Wonders of the World) being constructed, as an everlasting sign of the love Jahara’s father had for her mother.

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Beneath a Marble Sky
John Shors
New American Library (2006)
ISBN 0451218469
Reviewed by Beverly Pechin for Reader Views (5/06)

At least with aliens and UFO’s you can make movies and television series to make them exciting, but with down to earth positive thinking that is not so. Watching somebody think is not good drama, and results of positive thinking in practice can be very slow and subtle anyway.

Two of the attractions of using positive thinking are that it is easy, and it is free. However, before being convinced that it is something they should use, most people would need to see some quite dramatic and immediate example of its success, which is not easy to find. Given that positive thinking has to be applied over time to bring noticeable results in an individual, a stark and living example of the successful use of positive thinking is hard to come by.

So, what of the positive thinking examples that have happened over time, with a successful outcome? They can be easily dismissed by those who just do not want to believe: “Oh, that would have happened anyway, without positive thinking.” However, if the story is told to a lot of people, maybe one or two people will start to wonder: “Oh, maybe there is something in positive thinking after all.”

I think that probably the most convincing argument in favour of positive thinking is that it is plain common sense. An individual has their own mind, which controls their body and their actions. If that mind is sending out an overload of negative signals all the time, is the outcome not going to sway towards the negative? That sounds like a common sense notion to me, not hocus pocus, New Age, or even some advanced scientific theory. If the mind is sending out predominantly positive messages, then the opposite would be true.

Even without the common sense angle, though, I have good reason to believe the use of positive thinking in my own life has been both positive in its results, and significant in its impact. I am therefore able to support my belief in positive thinking with practical examples, and in the following three articles will recall some of those longer term examples.

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THE AIR RAID IS CONTINUING” Mona Elfarra-Gaza

One of the most profoundly simple statements ever uttered in the past 100 years was done so by Rodney King of Los Angeles standing behind a microphone a bit bewildered by the attention he was getting for having been beaten almost to death by “authorities.” “Can’t we all just get along?”

The anwer is evidently no. You’d think that a country with a history of recently having been the object of eradication by others, would not think they need to pass the same misery on to others. But alas, even as I write, the small nation of Israel, that like other nations on the planet, can at times cause more problems than they are worth for others, is pounding the crap out of a smaller minority of people who simply wish to be left alone, have some place to live safely and enjoy the brief experience we call life on this planet. Evidently that is asking too much of a people who looked to the German authorities not all that long ago to be given the very same considerations. It was not and evidently is not to be.

Is it because Israel is “The Holy Land,” what a joke, that no one seems to be able to tell them to try talking politely with respect towards all concerned for a change. If you were Palestinian, would you not fight like hell to save yourself and your family since you have already arrived on the planet and wish to stay awhile? That’s also the current problem with our country and the current administration. Bluster, bully and then bomb seems to be the way things get done, when of course they don’t get done at all. Anytime a North Korea, Iran or perceive “enemy” of who, of course, hate our freedom, tries to talk to us, an excuse arises as to why that won’t work. Makes you think there is some other agenda going on here.

If we were talking about Uganda, or Uzbeckistan, no one would care. God never lived there! It’s the waste howling wilderness we call “The Holy Land” that gets way too much attention. I have to say, they have managed to save their hides over the past decades by convincing Christians that God still lives in Jerusalem near the Temple Mount, so specialness preserves and protects. I worked on a dig at Megiddo a few years ago and was told by an Israeli friend, “we live by our witts around here.” They surely do, don’t we all, and must I suppose, but why on earth they can’t talk to others who have the same right is getting beyond me.

Go ahead and “Google Earth” the Gaza strip and then push the retreat button and see just how small the space is that Palestinians can’t have. Of course keep going and see how small Israel is. Keep going and see how small the planet is in the vastness of space…keep going and see how small space is in the vastness of the universe. Then ask why these mere specks on an obscure planet cannot have an obscure space of their own to live a relatively short time and be left in peace. Stupid isn’t it? Most leaders of most nations are stupid, selfserving and have forgotten long ago what it means to give every human on the planet the basic love and respect they deserve. All my life, the rules in African leadership, for example, seems to be kill the last guy, now comes the savior of the people, he forgets his roots, robs the country blind and the cycle starts again. Here is the rule for aspiring leaders. You were first human and wanted love, respect and peace before you were in charge. Try not to forget this basic fact. Most do.

” I am writing while the jet fighters are in the sky , with their horrible
sound , bringing death and horror,it is 10.30pm, I am still like everyone
waiting , i hope they will not go ahead with their operation into Gaza,
the outcome could be horrible ,the resistance movemet are going ahead with
their preperation too,but the balance of power is obvious to wich side
,any way Israel with resistance or no resistance is attacking us all the
time, but this time will be different ,and in the process many civilian
lives will be lost,iam listening to the local radio, it seems that the
operation started in khanyunis ,the artilary started shelling ,under the
cover of apachi heliocapters,and jet fighters , i am able to write now ,
do not know what will happen next,the power might cut off soon , few hours
ago , Mohammed and Sondos had a narrow escape during their way home , a
car exploded 150 meters from my home , close to the president home, one
person died and 4 injured, i cannot help feeling of worry, i am after all
a mother.” Gaza mom–July 2nd, 2006

Let’s back up to the evening of September 11, 2001 when America had suffered it’s worst attack since Pearl Harbor. We won’t go into what may or may not have really happened that day. I’m still trying to figure out who killed Kennedy. Would we have been better off if the following address to the nation was given, now that we can look back and see how much worse off we are as a nation and planet than we were on September 10th, 2001. Perphaps Israel, Paletinians, Iranians, North Koreans, Iraqis and Americans can give this a try for a change. We’ll assume that the reason this speech did not take place is not because there is another agenda and the speaker could not give it with a straight face.

“Good evening my fellow Americans. Today America was attacked and we don’t know why. (I’m not naive, we do know) We grieve at the loss of innocent and hard working Americans who simply got up this morning to go to work and never got to come home. We grieve with and for their families. We are perplexed and while it would be natural to find the real or imagined enemy that has done this to us, we are going to be patient and circumspect so as not to cause more problems for our fellow human beings than we solve with a bad and ill advised reaction. It will not serve anyone to treat the effect. We must ask ourselves why and what is the cause of this horrible act. I intend to do that before we take one more human life. There has always been way too much knee jerk in our history and it only causes more grief, short term and long.

While it may anger those that always need to start shooting within hours or days of such an event, I am calling for a world peace conference where we can find out why this has occurred and take the steps necessary to insure it never does again, for the good of all people. Perhaps we have become something to others that we were not aware of. Perhaps we need to look more deeply at what we have in common rather than what divides us. Perhaps we can turn tragedy and hatred into something more than unending rancor and war between people who share 99.9% of the same genetic family history. ……Perhaps, as that Great American Philosopher, Mr. Rodney King, said…”Can’t we all get along?.”…I think you get the point.

I’m dreaming I know. But if you fancy yourself a “leader of me,” don’t forget the women and children. If you believe with all your heart you have some special quality that we all need to get along, then by all means, show us your stuff. If you are butthead, as many are, please stay home from now on and if you are currently in a position of leadership, so called, retire, step down or quit. We have had enough of your kind.

…”the operation against Gaza ,is continuing,it is 1.30 am,the gaza bridge
has been destroyed,the jet fighters are still in the sky hitting many
targets.
the gaza power plant was hit bt at least 7 missiles , i can see a big fire
from my window , and hear the sirens of emergency vans,the gun boats
started shelling too , i live by the beach…

By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, June 30, 2006

BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip, June 29 — Fatin Shabaat left home here Thursday with her three hip-high children, looking for safety from a slow-moving Israeli military assault launched to free a 19-year-old soldier being held by Palestinian gunmen.

Israeli artillery batteries lobbed shells around this farming community in the Gaza Strip’s northeastern corner throughout the day, after leaflets dropped from the sky warned residents to remain clear of Israeli military operations. Shells whistled overhead, slamming into the fields and dunes where Palestinian gunmen regularly fire crude rockets at the Israeli city of Sderot, a white smudge along a ridgeline three miles away.

Although she never received one of the written warnings, Shabaat clutched her children, ages 2, 3 and 4, and headed to her father’s home in the town center, far from the dirt paths that have served in the past as routes for Israeli tanks. An Israeli airstrike had already left her without electricity, along with about 700,000 other residents of the strip, and artillery shells were falling close to her back yard.

“This is only going to get worse,” said Shabaat, 25,

And indeed it will if we don’t have leadership that reflects a more enlightened approach to governing besides the eye for an eye and teeth for teeth. Soon we shall all be blind and guming our food.